Question

What is `938.5-:0.35`?

Answer 1

2,681.43

Explanation:

When we write out our equation in fractional form the expression looks like this:

`938.5/0.35`

Since the number in the numerator (the number on the top) is greater than the one in the denominator (number on the bottom) we know that this number has to be greater than the number in the numerator (number on top).

This would be very tedious to solve without a calculator so we plug it into a calculator and we get:

`938.5/0.35= 2,681.428`

Since we have 2 digits to the right of our decimal we round to the nearest thousandths place (`3^(rd)` number to the right of the decimal), since 8 is greater than 5 we round up to get:

`2,681.43`

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Incidentally this also means that 35% of 2681.43 is 938.5 since a percent is any number over 100 times and the operator (the number used to solve the equation) is any number expressed as a decimal.

`35/100= 0.35` `->` `0.35*100=35%`

I hope this helped!